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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 015670160X
ISBN-13: 9780156701600
May 1993
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
333 pages
A Harvest Book, Hb 266
Language: English |
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Synopsis
Based on the life of Vita Sackville-West, a close friend of the author, this novel pays tribute to their passionate friendship. At the beginning of the book Orlando is a young, melancholic, poetry-writing nobleman in the Elizabethan Age; it ends in 1928, when Orlando is a modern, poetry-writing matron of 36.
| Details | | Series: | A Harvest Book, Hb 266 |
| Size | | Length: | 333 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 13.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
"There does not seem any reason at all to doubt that in this book has been issued a masterpiece of the first rank....It is written in prose; but that is a matter of the way marks fall on a page. Exploratory beauty, turning dark jungle into a safe habitation for the spirit, is here as it is in the work of the greatest of those who in the past used verse for their medium....The book is full of minute beauties; it is full of explanations of phases of being that have not before been visited by the writer. It demands careful reading and the completest consent to receive novelty. In fact, it has got to be read as conscientiously and as often as one would play over a newly discovered Beethoven sonata before one is satisfied one had got everything out of it that the composer had put in."
New York Herald Tribune Book Review - Rebecca West (10/21/1928)
"The book is propaganda. It is propaganda for a point of view and for a way of feeling, for grace and wit themselves, for brightness and for sharpness, for 'natural desire' for 'happiness! divine happiness! and pleasures of all sorts,' ...It is propaganda against 'those dreams which bloat the sharp image...dreams which splinter the whole and tear us asunder.' It is propaganda for that economy of thought and emotion which allow grace and wit."
Lionel Trilling (11/10/1928)
"In the closing pages of the novel Mrs. Woolf welds into a compact whole what had seemed to be a series of loosely connected episodes. In them she seems to reach down through the whole superstructure of life and to lay bare a new, or at least a hitherto unperceived, arrangement of those ephemeral flashes of memory of perception that go to make up consciousness....In attempting to describe such subtle and illusive qualities...Mrs. Woolf has faced squarely one of the most puzzling technical and esthetic problems that confront contemporary novelists. The mere fact that she has stated the problem as succinctly as she does in the course of this book is immensely stimulating....It is something of a question whether the tendency of contemporary novelists to become more and more introspective can profitably be carried much further. If it is to continue, however, Mrs. Woolf has pointed out the direction in which it must develop."
New York Times Book Review - Cleveland B. Chase (10/21/1928)
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